This week, Saturday Night Punnett features James McCanney as the 1st Hour Pop In, talking about the Popopo Volcano, Deep Impact, and Planet X. Can't say I'm too thrilled about that, but I am looking forward to hearing Punnett say "Popopo".

Meanwhile, Coast to Coast has finally gotten around to providing some information on IP at their website (HERE). Pretty neat bio on ol' Ian and I appreciate the color picture, though I'm torn over who Punnett looks like. I know he reminds me of a celebrity, but I can't quite recall who it is. Perhaps by the end of this week's SNP, I'll figure it out.

The familiar C2C theme music kicks up and we are off ...

Ian says it is a big show tonight, dubs it a "crypto night". Sweet.

He's talking about "trunko", some odd animal I've never heard of. Hmmm. He says it's re-emerged in China. Wow, they have a corpse there. In the mid-west, Monkey Man on the loose. Damn, Ian is getting me pumped to hear this episode.

Ian reads an e-mail that says "reckless and feckless". Ian reads an e-mail from someone who was fingerprint scanned at Disney. Spooky.

News on a new FCC law for allowing cops to spy on you. Dangerous but boring story.

Apparently, the government can search your trash free of charge.

Man is selling the right to advertise on his corpse. Started funny but got rather un funny by the end.

Detainees being held in secret in Yemen.

Update on Art's 2005 Prediction show. Says Prediction #9 is true. He reads a bunch of the predictions but barely explains how #9 is correct. Funny twist on Prediction #8 by Ian.

He reads a vision from a guy named Dean. Whose vision is that a suitcase nuke will go off during a Notre Dame football game.

Ian reads an e-mail that suggests he grow a moustache. Punnett says he did once and he looked like a "chubby porn star". Ha ha, good one, Ian.

IP previews McCanney's appearance.

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Enter McCanney. Ian's first time talking with McCanney, so we get some background from the good Doctor. He details his work in Latin America and with plasma physics. He touches on his main theory of electric comets and the overall theory of an electrical universe.

Ian asks him first about the Space Shuttle. McCanney correctly points out that it is at night. He says he is a critic of NASA, but obviously his thoughts are with the astronauts safe return. McCanney shows his sense, pushing private space travel over NASA.

Ian says all the attention paid to NASA is to see if they can do their job, not what they are doing.

McCanney rambles some and comes around to saying we need to "redirect" something or other.

Ian wants to know the truth about the large Mars story circulating.

McCanney gives an esoteric answer that ends with Mars will be closest in October, which I thought was like 2 years ago.

Ian asks if it will have any effect on us.

McCanney confirms my earlier belief that Mars was closest 2 years ago. Another esoteric answer that basically says it's possible and that there may be severe weather.

Some truly awful song begins and we head to ...

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We come back with a song from the '80's that I can't remember the name of. Oh, that "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" song. Ian plugs the "After Dark" bonus CD, he says it's like a "buddy road picture". Eh ?

More Trunko teasing from IP. You dasdardly man. Apparently Trunko always washes up dead on the beach. Sounds like it isn't that hard to catch.

More info from McCanney coming up. Ugh.

Ian wants info about Planet X.

McCanney says he's curious as to why NASA released the info now. He says it's about the 20th planet they've discovered. He think's its subtle misinformation. He's turning it into a combination of disinformation and conspiracy. He says it may have been discovered in 2003.

Ian says the phone is breaking up. McCanney is finally making sense. Ian says someone claims it is being called "Planet Xena".

McCanney says some odd Asian name is what he heard. Xinhua is what he said. Ian says it was pronounced, to him, as Xena "like the Warrior Princess on television". Gotta love the Punnett.

He wants to know why they won't come out and "say what they're thinking."

McCanney implies "something else is coming" expects maybe something "bigger and fantastic" coming down the line.

Ian hits the nail on the head by asking if it is a distraction from all the bad PR NASA has gotten. Punnett you've gotten it right on here.

McCanney kind of blows that off and wants to know why it is such a big deal in the first place, clearly not getting what IP was saying.

Ian wants to know about the Summer and Solar Flares if there is a weather correlation.

McCanney says we are in the top 2 of "hot summers". McCanney gives a deeply esoteric reply here that involves solar sheets, Neptune, August 7th, and other stuff that makes little sense to me. Possibly incredibly severe weather.

Ian asks if that means worse hurricanes.

McCanney says yes. But it could trigger volcanoes and earthquakes, etc.

Ian, "Generally across the US ?" Implying only America has weather.

McCanney thankfully explains that this stuff could happen all over the world. He also rambles on losing me several times.

Mary from East of the Rockies barges in to ask a question. She wants satellites to stop electrical hurricanes.

McCanney describes his big electrical buoy plan to "ground" a hurricane. I've heard this before and its good stuff.

A caller wants to know about Deep Impact.

McCanney parrots RCH's stuff on how NASA won't release Deep Impact data. McCanney says that the update is that there is no update.

Finally, Ian asks about the volcano that may erupt, sadly he does not say "Popopo". Boo to you, Ian.

McCanney gives a convoluted answer that basically says "it may erupt."

Ian was on McCanney's website and wants to know if McCanney still believes that the US killed John Denver !! What ?! Major kudos to IP for digging this odd tid bit up.

McCanney gives a fascinating story of how John Denver may have been murdered because he wanted to become the first civilian astronaut. Great stuff here, we need more of it.

Ian wants to know murder befalls other researchers.

McCanney talks about other researchers who may have been murdered.

They wrap it up with some Zeppelin and that wraps up this week's Saturday Night Punnett.

Not a fantastic outing, but we can't blame IP. He did his best, but they tried to do too much in that one hour McCanney pop in. You can't cover 3500 topics with a dude like McCanney, he's too convoluted. I also could have used that John Denver stuff at the beginning, because that was the best stuff in the hour.

No pipe mention this week from Punnett, rendering me sad and confused.